Description

The Lean Ball Game is a Lean simulation game developed by ELSE Inc. that brings your team together to learn how Lean works and its great benefits by playing.

This simulation is supported by the Lean Basics Online Training the Lean Basics Presentation. We strongly recommend that they are used together during the training session, because this way your team can experience the true power of what they’ve learned.

Briefly, Lean Manufacturing is:

A philosophy and a long-term strategy that aligns everything in the business to deliver increasing VALUE to the customer

It involves:

People

Systems / Processes

Waste and Deficiencies elimination

Case Study:

The process involves a group of three tennis balls that have to go through a process involving as many operations as people. The issue is that they have a large percentage of scrap and rejects, based on the number of times the balls are dropped, and the lead time (the processing time) is too long.

How will they manage to change their way of thinking and improve their operational effectiveness?

There’s one way to discover this: Get in the game!

How will they manage to change their way of thinking and improve their operational effectiveness?

There’s one way to discover this: Get in the game!

Objectives

The game is designed for groups of 6-8 people. If you have more players, just buy more sets of 3 tennis ball and use the same instructions. It can be seen as a competition between teams.

The purpose of the game is to prove the benefits of:

To show why the truly Lean organizations consider all their staff as their most valuable resource.

This is a simple game, but playing reveals the problems in typical batch production operations, versus Lean Flow operations.

By playing four rounds, we will demonstrate how we can decrease the lead time and increase quality while using the same number of people